Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Market data allows traders and investors to know the latest price and see historical trends for instruments such as equities, fixed-income products, derivatives, and currencies. [ 1 ] The market data for a particular instrument would include the identifier of the instrument and where it was traded such as the ticker symbol and exchange code ...
The Northeast Siberia Company (NESC) was an American company established in 1902 by a retired Russian colonel named Vonlyarlyarsky, [1] but composed primarily of Chicagoans. [2] The company's chartered purpose was to prospect for gold in the Chukotka region of Russia .
(The intraday high may not be the same as the opening price; for instance, in the 2010 flash crash, the market reached an intraday high, higher than the opening price.) [48] This is distinguished from an intraday point drop or gain, which is the difference between the opening price and the intraday low or high.
The Center for Research in Security Prices, LLC (CRSP) is a provider of historical stock market and investable index data. CRSP is an affiliate of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. CRSP maintains some of the largest and most comprehensive proprietary historical databases in stock market research.
A corporation can adjust its stock price by a stock split, substituting a quantity of shares at one price for a different number of shares at an adjusted price where the value of shares x price remains equivalent. (For example, 500 shares at $32 may become 1000 shares at $16.) Many major firms like to keep their price in the $25 to $75 price range.
From 1797 to 1811 in the United States, the New York Price Current was first published. It was apparently the first newspaper to publish stock prices, and also showed prices of various commodities. In 1884 the Dow Jones company published the first stock market averages, and in 1889 the first issue of the Wall Street Journal appeared.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The closing stock price for each day was determined by a coin flip. If the result was heads, the price would close a half point higher, but if the result was tails, it would close a half point lower. Thus, each time, the price had a fifty-fifty chance of closing higher or lower than the previous day. Cycles or trends were determined from the tests.